*As a result of various problems with computers, it has become impossible for me to keep this website up to date. Unfortunately, some files that should be here are missing; others are out of date. I have tried to make the needed repairs, but so far without much luck. Sorry.

I was honored to have been awarded the Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship in the spring of 2013. As a result of winning this fellowship, during AY 2013/14 I enjoyed the year off from teaching. At the end of my tenure as a Conti Fellow, I retired on June 1, 2014. I am still directing some dissertations.

During the time when I had the Conti Fellowship, I completed the manuscript of a new book. The title is Distributive Justice: Getting What We Deserve from Our Country. In this book I present criticism of other popular theories of distributive justice -- egalitarian, Rawlsian, sufficientist, prioritarian, libertarian, and others -- and then go on to present and defend my own theory. It is (as the title suggests) a version of the idea that justice is done when people receive the benefits and burdens that they deserve from their countries. The book was published in the UK on July 14, 2016; in the US on September 14, 2016. The OUP advertisement can be seen here:

I was invited to participate in an interview about the book on the New Books Network. The interview took place late in January 2017. You can listen to it by going to the New Books Network or you can get it here:

I was also invited to participate in an "Author Meets Critics" session at the Eastern Division APA meeting that will take place in January 2018 in Savannah. Critics will be Stephen Kershnar and Jeff Moriarty.

I was invited to submit a sort of academic autobiography for publication on a website. After quite a lot of back and forth, I agreed to do it. The resulting document can be seen here:

During November and December of 2016 I devoted a lot of time to an attempt to restore an antique apple cider press. I have attached an incomplete document that describes this project. Check below under "woodworking". It's the last link there. Or, if you prefer, you can see ithere.